7.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Medium-high sourness. Oaky and relatively full body for a sour. Exceptional for a darker sour. Hop grenade.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at Mellow. Pours a clear, deep copper with a small head that dissipates quickly. Big cherrry nose that really dominates...some light raspberry, almond and crab apple aromas and some oaky craeminess as it warms. Great carbonation with more wood and cherry on the finish. Solid!

8

Big cherry nose w/ faint raspberry, almond and crab apple. Creamy oaky notes on the palate. Wood, cherry and brazil nuts. Tart cherry.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared with the KL tasting group. Poured a murky medium reddish brown with a thin broken off white head. The aroma is biscuit dough yeast, tart red berry fruit, toasty, woody. The flavour is moderate sour with a light, tart acidic fruit palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750ml bottle pours out amber topped with a tan head. Nose is cherries vanilla oak barrel notes and plenty tartness. Taste is more of the nice cherries tartness sour kick oak barrel and vanilla.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle hazy reddish amber. Malty vinigary vinous aroma. Woody sour classic Flemish sour flavors. Lingering acidic trailer. Very good.

9.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

The Six (and last before the big one) Beer of my #6000 celebration (#6 of 13 - six beers on either side of 6000 and the milestone itself). Crisp deep amber and brown coloured body with a fast-dying tan head, that starts at three centimetres and fades to just about nothing. Aroma of sour grapes, raspberries, strawberries, oak, dry malt, lemons, yeast, cedar, brett and a ton of more sour cherry flavours - super pungent and very nice, definitely mouthwatering! Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive dry oaky cherry flavours at first with a definite sour quality, but a ton of complexity with oak, cedar, grain, alcohol, raspberry, lemon and grapes coming through as well, ending with yeast, strawberries, old wood and a healthy dose of cherries - very nice and robust throughout. Aftertaste is quite pungent with the cherry sour flavours dominating, but other fruit flavours, some lemons, hints of dry oak, cedar and more yeast is very noticeable, but a mouthwatering finish makes you wish for the next sip after just a few seconds. Overall, a great beer that makes you feel like you are in Flanders, but shows so much complexity and depth that any price you paid for the bottle, is probably worthwhile, given the effort, ingredients and care that went into this one. Definitely worth trying if you can find it, and perhaps even better to take some space in your place to cellar it for a while to let the flavours develop a touch and then mellow out. I sampled this 2013 Edition [vintage] 75 cL bottle purchased from New Beer Distributors in New York, New York on 18-July-2014 for US$20,00 sampled at home in Washington on 10-March-2017. 2013 Vintage Bottle (29-July-2013) // Purchased: 18-July-2014 // Sampled: 10-March-2017 (#5999 rating)